NEURAL DSP QUAD CORTEX

Almost 10 years ago, I sat in a recording studio with a couple of colleagues fairly convinced that we were the victims of an elaborate hoax. We had just unboxed the first Kemper Profiler to arrive in the UK and immediately used it to make a profile of a Marshall JTM45. When we AB’d our profile with the mic’d amplifier through studio monitors, the results were simply astounding. This had to be a hidden camera show or some sort of witchcraft, right? As we said in 2019 in Guitar.com’s round-up of the greatest gear of the decade, “Not only did the Kemper Profiler’s release represent the moment that digital amp modelling truly came of age, it turned the process on its head and democratised it, allowing the end-user to create their own amp models.”

A gamechanger it may have been at the time but, fast-forward to 2021 and the Kemper Profiler isn’t quite the cutting-edge product it used to be. Though it now exists in several form factors, the user experience is somewhat old-school and eccentric. While it’s